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Notes from The Doctorâ€™s Diary: Winter Dressing

In this Western Mail column, a GP provides anecdotes from his consultations with patients. These include a man concerned about winter chills, a man whose father was either poisoned or died from appendicitis, a woman concerned about goitres and a…

Norman baptismal font, St Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Hobart, Tasmania

Repair work on St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral, Hobart, in 2008 brought to light the possibility that a baptismal font in the Cathedral may be from the medieval Norman period. The cylindrical font has elaborately carved columns and Romanesque…

Tags: arch, baptismal font, Bishop Willson., Catholic, column, font, Hobart, Norman, Norman font, Robert William Willson, Romanesque, St Maryâ€™s Cathedral, Tas, Tasmania

No Risks with Magna Carta

In 1952, the Australian government purchased an inspeximus copy of Magna Carta from the reign of Edward I. This document confirmed and re-enacted the main provisions of the Great Charter signed by King John in 1215, and was enacted by parliament in…

No 'Robin Hood' financial transaction tax coming to Australia, says Wayne Swan

This article from the online news site Perth Now reports on Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swanâ€™s decision not follow the lead of European nations such as France and introduce a financial transactions tax to deal with economic crisis. Such…

Newcastle Knights rugby league club

The Newcastle Knights are a team in Australasia’s National Rugby League based in the New South Wales city of Newcastle. They joined the competition in 1988. The logo for the club is a side profile of the helmet of a medieval knight. The helmet…

Tags: Blackletter, Gothic script, helmet, knight, logo, National Rugby League, New South Wales, Newcastle, Newcastle Knights, NRL, NSW, plume, rugby, rugby league, visor.

New Procession ushers in Slipper era

This article from the online edition of ABC News reports on a change in Australian parliamentary procedure. A longer and more formal procession from the lobby of Parliament House to the Chamber of the House of Representatives has been introduced by…

Tags: Australian Parliament, Canberra, ceremonial robes, Chamber, House of Representatives, lobby, mace, medieval ritual, parliament, Parliament House, procession, public display, ritual, serjeant-at-arms, Speaker, weapon

New Norcia Abbey Ale

Released in 2007, New Norcia Abbey Ale was developed and produced by Chuck Hahn (of the Malt Shovel Brewery) in collaboration with the Benedictine monks at New Norcia. Unlike Trappist beers which are brewed within abbey walls under the control of…

Tags: Abbey ale, ale, Beer, Benedictine monks, Benedictines, brewing, golden ale, Malt Shovel Brewery, monastery, monastic ale, monasticism, monks, New Norcia, New Norcia Abbey Ale, Order of St Benedict, Rule of St Benedict, St Benedict of Nursia

New England Medieval Arts Society

The New England Medieval Arts Society (NEMAS) are a historical re-enactment group based in the New South Wales city of Armidale. The group concentrates on the fourth- to eleventh-century early medieval period (sometimes referred to as the â€˜Dark…

Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Armidale, Armidale State Forest, Byzantine, Dark Ages, early medieval, longhouse, NEMAS, New England, New England Medieval Arts Society, New South Wales, Norman, NSW, re-enactment, viking

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